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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloting was therefore limited to the four-fifths of the islanders belonging to the Greek community. Obvious favorite for President was Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, decisive ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks, who achieved political martyrdom when the British exiled him to the distant Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The First President | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Contagion. Some of the oil fever rubbed off on bureaucratic, bumbling YPF. "The Americans are teaching us many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Oil Boom | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Detroit society was bracing itself for the most glittering, opulent blowout in the city's history. Four days before Christmas, Car Czar Henry Ford II and wife Anne will play host to some 1,000 guests at the Country Club of Detroit, which will be extensively redecorated, just for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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